Art by Sara Fasolin
Avoid sci-hub too👀
If you want to read an academic article that's behind a paywall just email the author and ask politely if they will send you the article. Most academics will be thrilled that you want to read their work and will gladly send it to you.
I emailed to ask a Harvard researcher and advocate for intersex rights for access to one paper and she sent me seven plus additional resources and permission to stay in touch. Ask for papers!
Wishing everyone I know a very “go take advantage of the free Haymarket books about liberation movements deal” right now:
Free until November 22nd.
The Coffee Pot in Austin, It opened in 1928 and was demolished in the 1960s. This photo was taken in the 1940s.
surprised this hadn't been made yet
some of you bitches deserve a nap and a milkshake tbh
um maybe stfu and accept that u are lovable and life owes u a bagel
I don't like bagels
dearest babe the bagel is a metaphor for the baked good of your choice
A Young Daughter of the Picts, Steph Wilson
A Young Daughter of the Picts, attributed to Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, 1580s
Art by Arcano XV
Dr. Gachey with foxglove, 1890
Some of Van Gogh’s best work was done during a period of his life that he spent in a hospital being treated for his mental health problems. I could be wrong but I think Starry Night was among those.
This is consistently the case. Creators tend to do their best work when they are in a healthy place and receiving proper treatment and not being self destructive in their efforts to cope. Go figure.
All our experiences, good and bad, inform what we create, but suffering is not the price of great art. Suffering is what prevents artists from completing great art.
(I bring to mind this @tkingfisher / Ursula Verson quote about once a week <3)
the best fanfic is the one the author had fun writing actually.
the second best is the one the author used to work through some issues.
Item: in the 1950s research was starting to suggest smoking cigarettes might be bad for you, so one company beefed up their filter with asbestos
Yeah that tracks